Androgen suppression combined with elective nodal irradiation and dose escalated prostate treatment: A non-inferiority, phase III randomized controlled trial of stereotactic body radiation therapy versus brachytherapy boost in patients with unfavourable risk localized prostate cancer (ASCENDE-SBRT; CCTG PR24; NCT06235697).
Bibliographic record
Abstract
TPS5132 Background: External beam radiotherapy (EBRT), brachytherapy boost and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the evidence-based standard of care for unfavourable (unfavourable intermediate, high and very high) risk non-metastatic prostate cancer. Preliminary data demonstrate that treatment with 5 fractions of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) delivered to the pelvis and prostate with ADT is efficacious and tolerable in this patient population (Murthy Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 2025) Other potential advantages associated with this treatment strategy include fewer treatment visits, lower cost, avoidance of a general anesthetic and decreased resource utilization. Rigorous evaluation of this treatment strategy within a clinical trial is required to inform adoption in practice. Methods: PR24 is a Canadian Cancer Trials Group led, intergroup, randomized phase III, non-inferiority study comparing pelvic EBRT + brachytherapy boost to SBRT (5 fractions delivering 40Gy to prostate and 25Gy to pelvis) in brachytherapy eligible, unfavourable risk, non-metastatic prostate cancer patients. All patients will receive risk-adapted duration of ADT. The primary objective is to determine if SBRT is non-inferior to conventional EBRT with brachytherapy boost in terms of disease progression free survival (PFS). Secondary objectives include a comparison between arms of: safety and tolerability; efficacy including PSA response rate at 4 years, metastasis-free survival, prostate cancer cause-specific survival, overall survival; patient-reported and economic outcomes. Biobanking for future correlative studies is included in study design. Statistical design : The target accrual is 710 patients over 3.6 years with 5-year follow-up up to rule out a target HR 1.65 (6.5% inferiority difference at 5-years) in PFS, using type 1 error rate 5% (one sided) and 80% power with 5% lost to follow-up. Conduct to Date : Study activation - March 2024. First patient enrolled - April 2024. Accrual to date: 45. Supported by CIHR grant #183644, NCTN grant #CA180863 and CCS grant #707213. Clinical trial information: NCT06235697 .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".